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Manchester United’s Polly Bancroft is about to go away her position of Head of Girls’s Soccer on the finish of the season.
United confirmed her departure this afternoon and stated she would grow to be the CEO of Grimsby City FC, who’re within the fourth tier of the EFL.
Bancroft arrived at United in October 2022 to imagine the position of the newly-created Head of Girls’s Soccer.
She had beforehand labored at Brighton and Hove Albion in the identical place.
She was tasked with overseeing the strategic path, operations and efficiency of the ladies’s first group and academy.
Her first massive problem on the membership was to barter contract extensions for Alessia Russo and Ona Batlle on the finish of final season, nonetheless she was unsuccessful.
Batlle went to Barcelona on a free switch while Russo went to WSL rivals Arsenal.
It’s thought Bancroft’s departure is part of INEOS’ bid to restructure forward of the summer season switch window.
In addition to supporting head coach Marc Skinner and his employees, Bancroft is credited by United for serving to ship main enhancements in infrastructure for the ladies’s group, together with a brand new elite coaching facility at Carrington.
Below her tenure, there was progress within the help base and revenues for the ladies’s group, with constantly rising attendances for video games at Leigh Sports activities Village and over 150,000 tickets offered for WSL video games at Outdated Trafford.
Bancroft will proceed in her position till the top of the season while a seek for her successor is beneath manner.
It’s thought that is the primary of many adjustments United followers will see throughout each the boys’s and girls’s group as Sir Jim Ratcliffe appears to reshape United.
